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Fish fend off invading germs with an initial response similar to the one found in people

Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms. Zebrafish are becoming an important model for human disease, since they are easily handled, maintained and manipulated and many fundamental processes between zebrafish and humans are conserved.

Novel genetic finding offers new avenue for future Crohn's disease treatment

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine identified a novel link between ITCH, a gene known to regulate inflammation in the body and NOD2, a gene which causes the majority of genetic Crohn's Disease diagnoses.

2 signals -- from within and out of cell -- specify motor neuron differentiation

HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2009) -- Two signals -- an external one from retinoic acid and an internal one from the transcription factor Neurogenin2 -- cooperate to activate chromatin (the basic material of chromosomes) and help determine that certain nerve progenitor cells become motor neurons, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine (

Recent developments at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, May 2009

Human monoclonal antibodies effective against bird and seasonal flu viruses



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